Twenty-four Illustrations of Poems of the Thirty-six Poets

Color woodblock print; 24 illustrations of poems; six women in traditional Japanese clothing; sitting and kneeling; one woman standing; background beige with black border; Japanese characters written in black ink.

Artwork details

Date:: ca. 1790
Medium:: Ink and color on paper
Culture:: Japan
Dimensions:: 600 × 411 px
Museum record:: View original

Palette

The Actors Ichikawa Komazo II as Minamoto no Yorimasa (right), Matsumoto Koshiro II as Osada no Taro Kagemune Disguised as Yatsurugi Zaemon (center), and Ichikawa Danzo III as I no Hayata Tadazumi (left), In the Play Nue no Mori Ichiyo no Mato, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1770

Parody of The Book of Joruri

Women Playing Music

The Actors Yamashita Yaozo I as Ono no Komachi (right), Matsumoto Koshiro II as Godai Saburo (center), and Ichikawa Danzo III as Otomo no Kuronushi (left), in the play "Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1771

The Courtesans Utagawa and Nanasato from the Yotsumeya, from the album "Comparing New Beauties of the Yoshiwara - A Mirror of Their Own Writings (Keisei shin bijin awase jikihitsu kagami)"

Young Woman and Little Girl Playing Musashi

The Six Immortals of Poetry, Abbreviated

Amusements of Kabuki Actors of the “Third Floor” [Dressing Room] (Yakusha sangaikyō), by Shikitei Sanba 俳優三階興

Mirror of Yoshiwara Beauties (Seirō bijin awase sugata kagami) 青楼美人合姿鏡

Scene at the Ishido Mansion (Ishido yakata no dan), from the series "Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi"

The Actors Ichikawa Yaozo II as Yoshimine no Munesada (right), Yoshizawa Sakinosuke III as Shizuya (center), and Nakamura Matsue I as Sakuragi (left), in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji, Performed at the Nakamura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

The Actors Segawa Kikunojo II, Ichikawa Komazo II, and Arashi Otohachi I in the play "Fude Hajime Soga no Tamazusa," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1768